The shortlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. These awards recognise the titles that booksellers most enjoyed reading and hand-selling during 2019.

This year, for the first time, the awards will be presented in three categories: adult fiction, nonfiction and children’s. Below are this year’s shortlisted titles for each category.

Adult fiction

• The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
• Bruny by Heather Rose
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
• Silver by Chris Hammer
• There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
• The Yield by Tara June Winch

Nonfiction

• Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan
• Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
• See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
• The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
• Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
• Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

Children’s

• Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly
• All The Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie
• Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
• Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street by Felicita Sala
• The Tiny Star by Mem Fox & Freya Blackwood
• It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood

This year’s winners will be announced on Wednesday, 8 July.